»It is no secret that in Slovenia we have problems with the rule of law and also with the freedom of the media, but of course we look at these problems differently,« explained Prime Minister Janez Janša. He is convinced that those who talk the most about media freedom also violate it the most. This was …
MEP and liberal Sophie in ‘t Veld, who recently attacked the current Slovenian government, has found herself under an avalanche of criticism after Dutch media outlet HP/De Tijd reported that in recent years, as an MEP, she has received tens of thousands of euros, which is much more than what belongs to MEPs. Namely, MEPs …
Today’s press on the current situation with the COVID-19 disease was attended by Janez Poklukar, the Minister of Health, Tjaša Žohar Čretnik, Director of the National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food, Deana Potza from the Health Inspectorate, and Tomaž Pečjak, Deputy Director General of the Police. 6,432 PCR and 27,645 rapid antigen tests were …
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Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, French President Emmanuel Macron, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič and Romanian Prime Minister Florin Cîțu have written a letter to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen about the role of nuclear …
Modern Centre Party (Stranka modernega centra – SMC) MP Jasna Murgel announced the following on the social network Facebook in 2015: “We will replace the Constitutional Court judges.” And her statement turned out to be prophetic, as since then, some candidates who were to the liking of the left actually took the positions of Constitutional …
At the interpellation, which began on Wednesday, the 24th of March 2021, Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti had the opportunity to show his achievements in culture, despite the fact that this is one of the sectors that was most affected by the global crisis of the epidemic. Under Simoniti’s leadership, culture has received record budget …
Public presentations of four candidates for the new rector of University of Ljubljana are beginning today. The candidates are Igor Lukšič, Gregor Majdič, Igor Papič, and Anton Ramšak. The presentations will take place in three terms, today, Thursday, and Friday at 16:00 via the Zoom web links. By February 25th, the University Electoral Commission had …
Testing in a refugee camp in Sicily has revealed that a 16-year-old illegal immigrant was infected with the Nigerian variant of the coronavirus. The main feature of the new variant is that its resistance to vaccinations is unknown. It’s arrived in Italy with a Nigerian migrant who recently made landfall in Sicily. First, he was quartered in a …
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US police have managed to identify a suspect in a ten-time murder in Colorado at the King Soopers supermarket, in the Table Mesa neighbourhood of Boulder City. The authorities there revealed today that the suspect is a 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Aliss. US authorities have managed to identify a suspect in a 10-fold first-degree murder who …
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At the 67th extraordinary session of the National Assembly, Prime Minister Janez Janša spoke about the proposal for a Declaration on the Orientations for the Republic of Slovenia’s functioning in the European Union institutions for the period 2021–2024. As the Prime Minister said at the outset, we had already discussed a similar declaration twelve times …
The district state prosecutor has dismissed the criminal complaint against the director of the Government Communication Office, Uroš Urbanija, M.Sc., which was filed by the Slovenian Trade Union of Journalists, in connection with the suspension of funding for the Slovenian Press Agency. As is already known, the Government Communication Office (Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za …
Assembly for the Republic has responded to the statement of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts on “Slovenian reconciliation,” which was published on the 15th of March 2021. The response, signed by the president of the Assembly for the Republic, France Cukjati, states that they are willing to cooperate to the best of their …
